Then what, sales of Netware are almost non-existent. Last dog and pony show I was at from Novell said they had enough money on hand to last several years at their current burn rate. This was in 2000 when people were asking if they were even going to be in business much longer. Notice their long term plans never mentioned something like actually selling a product. I ended up laughing in their faces.
I thought you were Mr. buy American? You want Novell to go out of business because they sell Linux?
BTW, they do most of their software development in India. Just try and use the latest version of Zenworks. By some miracle they might have fixed it but I'm not too hopeful.
Nope, sales of Netware are probably bringing in 20+ times what any sales of Linux are bringing in. No wonder, you yourself are looking for a free download, right?
Last dog and pony show I was at from Novell said they had enough money on hand to last several years at their current burn rate.
They do have lots of cash, mostly thanks to lawsuits against Microsoft. Doesn't mean they're going to throw that all away if Linux isn't a viable business model.
I thought you were Mr. buy American? You want Novell to go out of business because they sell Linux?
I don't want them to go out of business, what I want to happen is what Jack Messman the CEO said might happen - for them to declare Linux as a non-viable business. They could be getting close, based on his recent conference call after reporting their latest loss.
Here's a recent report:
http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2005/06/06/story4.html?from_rss=1
Total Novell revenue, $297 million.
Total Linux revenue, $8 million.
Net result, $16 million loss.
Actually, it depends on the product. But most companies are outsourcing a lot of their development...
What problems are you talking about with Zenworks? Zen 6.5 is HUGH, with "pieces" that do everything from managing handhelds to patching windows, novell, and linux servers, to desktop management, to personality migration to imaging, etc... It's an awesome product. So, which piece is broken?
Mark